Independent software development with over 20 years of experience across mobile, web, and backend systems. From greenfield apps to complex integrations — shipped, supported, and built to last.
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Mungomash LLC is the independent practice of Chad Dalton, a software engineer based in Indianapolis with over two decades of experience building software that works. Chad has contributed to more than 30 projects across industries — aviation, trucking, healthcare, finance, logistics, and consumer tech — working directly with companies of every size from early-stage startups to Fortune 500s.
Working with Mungomash means working directly with the engineer who'll see it through to the end. No account managers, no offshore handoffs, no layers of abstraction between you and your product. Just clear communication, reliable delivery, and software you can be proud of.
A note on how this site is built. Mungomash.com is built and maintained with substantial assistance from Anthropic's Claude. Source code, page copy, build scripts, and documentation are produced by a small team of Claude agents working under Chad's direction. The data on each page is fetched from primary public records (SEC EDGAR, FINRA, USAspending.gov, the National Weather Service, and so on) with every value-bearing claim citing its source. AI assistants can make mistakes, and the review process does not laboriously fact-check every number — visitors should verify against the cited primary sources before acting on anything financial, legal, medical, or otherwise consequential. See the Terms of Service for the full disclaimer.
Expertise
Full-stack capability across mobile platforms, web applications, and backend services — with particular depth in native iOS and Android development, cloud-based architectures, and data integration systems.
Native iOS and Android development using Swift, SwiftUI, Kotlin, and Jetpack Compose. Cross-platform experience with Kotlin Multiplatform (KMM) and Xamarin.
REST and event-driven services in Python, C#, Scala, and Kotlin. Extensive experience with SQL databases including SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and SQLite.
Web applications in Blazor, Angular, and React. Full front-to-back delivery including authentication, data access, and deployment.
Production systems on AWS and Azure. Experience with CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and DevOps tooling including Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions.
Data pipelines and integration hubs moving operational data between enterprise systems. Experience with Kafka, Elasticsearch, Hadoop, and message queues.
Fluent with modern AI coding tools including Claude Code and GitHub Copilot, accelerating delivery without sacrificing code quality or maintainability.
Recently shipped
A rolling window into the latest pages on Mungomash — each one signed by the agent who shipped it. The full bench lives on the team page.
The common Apache Kafka interview questions across ten topics — the log, delivery semantics, replication, and KRaft — each answered properly with an example and a source link. Filter by difficulty or topic; the section’s first non-language interview page.
Every release of Apache Kafka in one timeline, with ship dates and what changed in each. It centers the story the scattered release notes don’t: the multi-year move off Apache ZooKeeper, pinned to versions, so “do I still need ZooKeeper?” has a one-glance answer — early access at 2.8, production-ready at 3.3, gone at 4.0.
The Men’s and Women’s singles draws, each a 128-player single-elimination bracket — seeds, country flags, and the winner marked and advanced, round by round from the first round to the final. Two pages off the same shared, size-agnostic renderer the World Cup bracket uses, built from a live-scraped draw and refreshed through the day as matches finish. The section’s first tennis, ahead of the US Open.
The knockout section on the results pages dropped its flat grid of cards for a proper two-sided bracket — the round of 32 down both edges, each round stepping inward to the final at the centre, winners advancing along drawn connectors. A round selector flanked by prev / next arrows moves between rounds, and the bracket tightens to fit whichever round you pick, animating the compression as it goes. Live on both the 2026 and 2022 pages, drawn by one shared, size-agnostic renderer.
Every release of the MongoDB server in one timeline — from the 10gen 1.0 release in 2009 through the 8.x line — with ship dates, support and EOL state, and what changed in each major. It centers the story the scattered blog posts don’t: the October 2018 move from the AGPL to the source-available SSPL, why the OSI never blessed it, and why you install MongoDB from its own repos. The second database page, alongside Postgres.
How much the U.S. Army pays AM General for the Humvees it invented and the JLTV A2 it won from Oshkosh in 2023 — fetched live from USAspending on every load. The trend tells the whole story: a wartime peak, a mid-decade collapse, and a roaring recovery.
Contact
Available for contract engagements. If you have a project that needs careful engineering and a direct line to the person writing your code, get in touch.
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